When inflation spiked last year, companies responded by raising their prices. As price pressures started to ease, companies opted to prioritize pricing over volume. It was a fairly broad-based trend.
Trust in elected officials has been in steady decline for decades. One reason is Americans feel the game is rigged against them. It’s hard to decide if members of Congress and other elected officials are self-serving or civil servants.
The envisioned benefits of ESG investing—owning companies that follow responsible environmental, social, and governance policies—have failed to materialize.
If you listen to the financial media, you’d think seven stocks are responsible for “the market’s” gain this year. But the charts are telling us otherwise.
AI Is an Unstoppable Disruptive Trend That Will Affect All of Us
The release of ChatGPT late last year triggered a firestorm of debate about both the promise and dystopian risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Some have labeled it the Great AI Freak Out of 2023.
We are finally hearing a resolution may be in sight for the debt ceiling, though I suspect this will drag out to Monday or even Tuesday. Why waste a good crisis, after all?
Do the days and weeks seem shorter to you lately? Maybe that’s an unkind feature of getting older. I have so much more I want to learn and understand, and not enough time to process it all.
